Do they have a right to be 'piqued' at Freddie?

There's a soapbox entry on Brian's site dated July 13th where he goes on a bit of a rant about how Freddie did his solo thing, they all (Brian, Roger and John) helped, and then he (Freddie) dissed them all by saying something like, "thanks to Brian, Roger and John for staying out of this".

Brian goes on to talk about how Freddie hired a guy to play like him (Brian), etc, and if Freddie wanted to sound like Queen, why didn't he just work this project with Queen?

Are his complaints legit? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but it came off as whiny and immature. He even went on to say how maybe people are ready for a Freddie solo album now since nobody wanted one then.

It sounds like Brian has some lingering love/hate issues with Freddie. For those in the know, I guess this is nothing new, but it was quite a surprise to me.

Opinions?

Of course he has a right to be piqued.

every band has their problems. so i guess, yeah. if these things are true, then they do have a right to get mad.

Hmm, I didn't really know what to think about this issue. Very delicate.

Well didn't Brian work on the demos of the songs? I'm not sure he worked on the released ones!

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]innadizon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]every band has their problems. so i guess, yeah. if these things are true, then they do have a right to get mad. [/QUOTE]

I guess that's more my question - Are these things true? Whether they have the right to be piqued depends on that, yes?

Eh, every band has their in-fights. I suppose this is just one of those "grr" issues that came up.

brian still loves freddie anyway. he has so much praise for him, despite his "faults", if i may say that. :) i sourced this from his soapbox, by the way.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]innadizon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]brian still loves freddie anyway. he has so much praise for him, despite his "faults", if i may say that. :) i sourced this from his soapbox, by the way.


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He does praise him. Whenever I've seen him speak about Freddie it's always with this kind of reverie. That's why this seemed strange to me. His resentment is very clear and that shocked me.

Human beings are multi-faceted, you know.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]beautifulsoup wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Human beings are multi-faceted, you know. [/QUOTE]

true. best friends have some 'problems' with their best friend, and it's inevitable. but they still totally respect each other right? this is just the same for any rockstar, like brian.

I remember Freddie said in an interview about Queen... in reference to them compared to him, he said "Leave it to me for writing the hits" but you could tell he was joking due to his facial expression, plus it was during 'The Works' release, and his only hit was It's A Hard Life and it wasn't the best charter on the album.

wasn't radio gaga a hit too? and i want to break free? and hammer to fall? :)

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]innadizon wrote: [/QUOTENAME]wasn't radio gaga a hit too? and i want to break free? and hammer to fall? :)[/QUOTE]

Yeah! Radio GaGa was the biggest!

But Freddie was making a joke and said "leave it to me for the hits!"

Then again, Radio GaGa was reminxed by Freddie... and probably deserved a co-credit. Especially since it's been publically admitted that Freddie changed the song around so it's complementing the radio, instead of the Roger version whiched dissed it...

haha! freddie's so funny. :)